Meal Maker. App Reviews

This is a good app as far as it goes. I was looking for a place where my recipes and shopping lists could easily overlap. I am an experienced cook in a house with many food peculiarities, so I did not want to work with someone elses recipes or ingredient list. All other apps offer more than I need so I end up doing lots of workaround s. I love the simplicity and cleanness of this app. And I appreciate that it treats me like a grownup instead of someone whos never stepped foot in a kitchen before. But I dont think its going to work in the long haul. It wont actually be a time saver unless it adds: -a database of ingredients so I dont have to re enter common ingredients every time I enter a new recipe -a way to alphabetize recipes and ingredients. -a way to see a week or months worth of meal plans at a time. -a better interface when it comes to entering menus -a way to indicate plans to eat out or eat leftovers. This sounds like a lot of complaints but Im giving it 3 stars because I have a lot of hope for the future of this app.

I was able to add the days and meals. I could also add categories, and save recipes. However, I would need to see sorting everywhere, such as in the shopping list and categories. It would also be nice that when I select the day, it went right to view. I would also like to add misc items to the shopping list, such as paper products, detergents, and so on, not necessarily a part of the meal, but needed in that shopping trip. Not an extremely intuitive program, but I got around it.

There are better apps but I thought Id try it.

I cannot believe how incredible this app is. Its just as fast to use this app as it is to write it down. Its exactly what Ive been looking for to plan every meal for my family. Its simple, to the point without any fluff or learning curve. I can quickly add one day or a week with just a click. Thank you for keeping it simple.

This app was really difficult to use. Nice clean, minimalistic design, but not intuitive at all. When swiping through different recipes, sections and meal plans, I couldnt figure out how to make it do what I wanted. I had a really hard time adding recipes to meal plans, and I eventually gave up.

I really love this app, it has made it so much easier to plan meals for my family. We are trying to eat healthier and not eat out as much to save money, and this app makes it much more manageable to do that. I love how it builds a shopping list for you based on the ingredients you need, and that I can store my recipes so making the shopping list is quicker the next time that I want to use a specific recipe because I dont have to enter the ingredients again. I do have to agree with Jeffs suggestions to make this app more efficient though. Alphabetizing recipes is a biggie, and having a database of ingredients would make entering them in a lot faster. Despite those things, though, I really appreciate this app and I look forward to an updated version!

I only need to plan dinners and cant figure out how to delete the breakfast and lunch. Also, is there a way to show the date you are planning for when on the meal screen? Additionally, I found navigating back to main menu was cumbersome. I think a list would do just as well.

Easy to use, helpful with family meal planning. Easily converts recipe items into a shopping list that you can email, and can save your recipes so you can pick from the list to repeat next week if you want. Needs a way to sync it to another persons phone so that my spouse and I can both have the app and sync up grocery list, meal plan and recipe.

Could you please update so we can add more that 3 meals a day? And please let us name those meals freely: breakfast, pre-workout, after workout, lunch, snack 1, etc etc..

This is a simple app that is perfect so planning and scheduling meals. However, it doesnt allow you to edit the dates. For example, if I decide that Id rather make chili on May 20 instead of the 18th, I cant just change the date associated with chili; I have to recreate the entire meal for the 20th. Thats irritating if Ive spent time putting in the all of the ingredients.